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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: UNIX runs DOS applications?
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Date: 17 Nov 89 03:16:01 GMT
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mitsolid@acf5.NYU.EDU (Thanasis Mitsolides) writes:
>Is it possible to run DOS sessions from inside UNIX?
>I hear that AIX can, but that it runs only on PS/2 systems.
>Are  there any other UNIX systems that can run DOS applications?

Yes, SunOS 4.0.x on a Sun 386i (or a Sun with a Sun IPC board) will do the job
nicely.  Too pricy for you?  Ok, get SCO Xenix 386 with DOS Windows (VP/ix)
and that will do the job for you.  I think the same holds for SCO Unix
System V 386 as well.  But I would not run any sort of implementation of VP/ix
(i.e. DOS Windows) on a 286 box because the 286 is brain damaged with respect
to flipping in and out of protect mode, that and there's no virtual 8086 mode
like the 386 has.  So if running DOS applications under a Unix based OS is a
big thing for you, you HAVE to have a 386.  Do it from a 286 and I guarantee
you it will crash regardless of how well behaved the DOS application is under
VP/ix.  Not even K&R can get around the design flaws of a 286.

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